To many companies, GRC (governance, risk and compliance) is a giant ape scaling the office walls. As technology becomes more pervasive and critical to business success, the hairy creature that is GRC also gains in its complexity. Legislation surrounding various aspects of corporate governance, especially the management of business critical and personal data, further adds to the risk mix that companies are exposed to. Judge Mervyn King identified this exposure and has, since 1994, led the way in establishing an (internationally recognized) benchmark by which boards of directors could measure their compliance in all aspects of business. The King III Report is his latest offering, with a greater focus on IT governance – separating the “information” and &ld ..

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Data on desktops and laptops is still a vastly exposed risk area, according to a recent Cibecs / IT Web survey. Most companies have server backup solutions in place, but focus is now shifting to user data stored on desktops and notebooks and the protection thereof. This is where a backup and recovery vacuum exists. The 2010 Data Loss Survey statistics underline this problem. For example: Nearly half (46%) of companies rely on some kind of backup policy (be it to a file server or external hard drive) to ensure business critical data is backed up. However these very same companies list the fact that users do not follow policy as their main obstacle in terms of successful data protection. Reality is that users will never follow data backup policies be ..

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For many years, "tape was considered to be an integral part of any successful data backup and recovery strategy. Times change however and, while tape still has a role to play as the final cog in the data protection wheel, it is just not practical as a primary backup technology for business users. Current statistics (highlighted below) do not support the operational effectiveness of tape as the primary backup tool and, to be honest, the costs involved with using the technology as such are simply not favourable. Yes, as mentioned tape does have a place, however fact remains that there are various challenges associated with using this technology and /or other solutions that struggle to make the grade in terms of business continuity when the data chips are down. 6 feature ..

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